Rome’s Beginnings Roman Republic Roman Emperors Wild Card Final Jeopardy

10 On what peninsula is Rome located? Answer

Italian Peninsula or Apennine Peninsula

20 Answer What mountains in northern Italy provided protection?

The Alps

30 Answer What group of people were the “first Romans?”

The Latins

40 Answer According to legend, what two Brothers built Rome?

Romulus & Remes

50 Answer What did the Etruscans teach the Latins?

Building with brick & tile, how to drain marshes, Etruscan alphabet

60 Answer Along what river did the Latins Settle?

Tiber River

70 Answer From what group did the Romans get most of their culture?

Greeks

80 Answer What type of religion did they have?

Polytheistic

90 Answer The Latins revolted against Etruscan kings to create what type of government?

Republic

100 Answer What was the Forum?

Square where government buildings and laws were located

10 Answer In a republic, the power rests with _______________.

The citizens

20 Answer What were the two classes in Rome that struggled for power?

Patricians & Plebeians

30 Answer Who were the patricians?

Wealthy landowners

40 Answer Who were the Plebeians?

common farmers, artisans, and merchants

50 Answer What percentage of the population were the Plebeians?

95%

60 Answer What made up the executive branch of the Roman Republic?

2 Consuls

70 Answer What made up the legislative branch in the Roman Republic?

Assembly of Centuries & the Senate

80 Answer What did the Plebeians do to demand representation?

Went on strike from the military

90 Answer What kind of representation did the Plebeians receive?

Tribunes

100 Answer What were the Twelve Tables?

The Roman laws hung in the Forum on bronze tablets

10 Answer Who was the 1 st emperor of Rome?

Octavian (Augustus)

20 Answer What period in Roman history began during Augustus’ reign?

Pax Romana

30 Answer What did the emperors after Augustus have in common?

They were mentally unstable.

40 Answer Who murdered Claudius and why?

His wife; she wanted her son to be emperor

50 Answer Why was Nero a bad emperor?

Spent the empire’s money Accused of burning Rome Murdered his wife and mother

60 Answer What did Nero say when he committed suicide?

“What an artist the world is losing!”

70 Answer What emperor built a wall across the width of Britain?

Hadrian

80 Answer Who was the last of the good emperors?

Marcus Aurelius

90 Answer What did the emperors built in order to increase communication throughout the empire?

Roman Roads

100 Answer Who was the first Christian emperor?

Constantine

10 Answer Here, people could watch gladiators fight against each other or wild animals to the death

Colosseum

20 Answer Temple to the gods of ancient Rome

Pantheon

30 Answer Artificial channels for carrying water (some brought water from 60 miles away)

Aqueducts

40 Answer What language did the Romans speak?

Latin

50 Answer Latin is the basis for the Romance languages. Name two.

French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Romanian

60 Answer Romans forced Jews out of Jerusalem, and they of Jerusalem, and they were forced to settle elsewhere. What is this called?

Jewish Diaspora

70 Answer Who was the leading teacher of Christianity?

Paul

80 Answer From most important to least, list the hierarchy of the Roman Catholic Church.

1.Pope 2.Archbishops 3.Bishops 4.Parish priests

90 Answer Who split the Roman Empire into 2 separate empires (through his will) ?

Theodosius

100 Answer What caused the fall of the Roman Empire?

Inflation, poor leadership, and Germanic invasions

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